----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Lordi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Xandros 2.0. failure to boot. prior to cleaning the cdrom drive.
Carl. Thanks. Apparently another problem occurred when the LILO went south and was restored with 'restore'. The startup had no music when the window icon flashed. Trying to play a cd confirmed there was no sound.
Started up with a Knoppix cd and it configured the sound and played fine. Even got a message from Linus Torvalds. It identified the sound card as Maestro. Back to Xandros, and no sound. No sound card in # lsmod. Tried # modprobe maestro, and then # lsmod, and maestro appeared, and the cdplayer would play with Xandros 2. However, shutting down and restarting lost the soundcard configuration.
In my infinite wisdom, figured that Xandros 'restore' worked on LILO, it would word on Maestro. Wrong! Restore was of no further help. Maestro appears in the control center under hardware but it somehow doesn't load on startup.
Couldn't find any graphical configuration for sound, and my favorite # /usr/sbin/sndconfig just got me an error message like 'no such file or directory'.
Will any Xandros enthusiast offer any insight to the following:
1. Is there a graphical configuration of sound card on Xandros 2?
2. Is there a cli configuration of sound that remembers from one boot to another without # modprobe maestro every startup? I seem to recall something like a /devices/drivers command that was fraught with warnings, followed by something like an xangenmodules. I need detailed cli entries, as cli is not my longsuit.
VI or VIM thinks it's my enemy. I promise to make a hard copy.
I'm going to look for an Xandros FAQ site.
Anthony
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Fitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Xandros 2.0. failure to boot. prior to cleaning the cdrom drive.
The problem you encountered was with the boot loader lilo. Lilo prints a letter to represent where in the booting process it is. The following table shows what each letter means :
*/Prompt/* */Description/* L</nn/> /nn/ represents one of 16 disk-error codes. LI The second-stage boot loader loaded, but could not run. LIL The descriptor table could not be read. LIL? The second-stage boot loader loaded at an incorrect address. LIL- LILO found a corrupt descriptor table. LILO LILO ran successfully.
So it looks like the second stage boot loader code may have been courupted. The next question is when? The problem(?) with linux is that it may be be some time between the causal action and the need to reboot. The usual remedy is to boot with a bootable disc or floppy and rerun lilo, which is probably what the restore disk did.
Anthony Lordi wrote:
Would appreciate comments on what happened to my laptop on which Xandros worked fine for months through three presentations, and quit today. Fortunately, it is now booting and I'm looking for what caused or was the problem. It was noted as I was pursuing cdrom drive frailties, md5sum, etc., having purchased a cleaning cd with whiskers, which is supposed to clean the laser lens to restore accuracy of the cdrom drive. I also purchased a cdrom drive with which to check a "restored" cd drive. But, I digress. What happened was before I used the whiskered cd.
I started Xandros, and immediately after the bios Post, the screen showed LI, and that is as far as it got. I tried to get it to boot with the original Xandros install cd thinking I would use the "shift" to troubleshoot, but It wouldn't boot. It wouldn't boot from the cdrom drive on initial installation either.(yes, the bios is set up for cd boot). Got out the boot floppy that enabled initial install from the floppy and it brought up the message to shift to trouble shoot. Shifted and selected "Restore Xandros", thinking I was in for a total install, losing all the files. However, after about a minute of restore, it advised to remove the disks and start up. It started up like it used to.
What happened? LILO obviously didn't complete it's function. Did restore reinstall LILO? What else does restore do? The friendly manual was of no use to me. In fact, the Xandros manual has been a waste of time getting answers for which I'm looking. Since the laptop is working, I'm going back to cleaning and checking md5sums.
Anthony.
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